Cause For Celebration

August 19, 1985

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Indonesia, happy birthday to you. The nation wrapped up its 40th anniversary celebration Sunday with the biggest parade in its history and an amnesty for more than 20,000 criminals and political prisoners, including some who took part in a failed communist coup in Jakarta in 1965. An estimated 500,000 people cheered and waved flags along the 16-mile parade route through central Jakarta. Huge color portraits of President Suharto were plastered everywhere. History lesson: Indonesia proclaimed its independence from the Netherlands on Aug. 17, 1945.